Category Archives: Travel Guides
Literary Lunch
A compendium of culinary delights and literary gems from Vintage`s most celebrated authors.To whip up your own Literary Lunch, just follow this simple recipe… Take a generous helping of Ian McEwan and leave to marinate overnight; add some Sebastian Faulks to a pan and saute on a high heat; mix in a dollop of Louis
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
“Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story… `Pale Rider` is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past” GuardianWith a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly
A Climate of Fear
THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVEL. Longlisted for the CWA International Dagger. A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene. Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who ten years earlier had also taken part in a
The Girl Who Escaped Isis: Farida`s Story
In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. The jihadists murdered the men and the boys of her village, including her father and brothers, before
A Rising Man
Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta`s police force. He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was a senior official, and a note in his mouth warns the British to leave India – or else. With the stability of
Homesick For Another World
There`s something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh`s stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful – and often even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet; all yearning for connection and betterment, in very different ways, but each of them seems destined to be tripped up by their own baser impulses. What
The Tiger in the Smoke
This is a Vintage Murder Mystery – With a new introduction by Susan Hill. Agatha Christie called her `a shining light`. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the `true queen` of the classic murder mystery? A fog is creeping through the weary streets of London – so too are whispers that the Tiger is back in
The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history
Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man ‘“ surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist before the concept even existed. Eccentric, revolutionary, prolific, he was one of the nineteenth century’s most improbable geniuses. His lifelong passion was to discover new ways to feed the hungry. Rhinoceros, crocodile, puppy-dog, giraffe, kangaroo, bear
This Too Shall Pass
Blanca is forty years old and motherless. Shocked at the unexpected loss of the most important person in her life, she suddenly realises that she has no idea what her future will look like.To deal with her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to sex, her dearest friends, her closest family, and a change of
Stalin`s Meteorologist: One Man`s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death
Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was
Beautiful Animals
The best intentions can be deadly During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another`s lives to devastating effect. When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and
Numero Zero
The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose. 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce`s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna takes a job at a fledgling newspaper financed by a
The Blade Artist
Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he`s a fake and a con man, while others see him as a
Leaving Before the Rains Come
The sequel to Don`t Let`s Go to the Dogs Tonight. In her twenties Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life. In this frank, personal memoir, she charts their twenty years together, from the brutal beauty of the Zambezi to the mountains of
Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World
In 1991 Andrew Solomon faced down tanks in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the August coup. We find him on the quest for a rare bird in Zambia in 1998, and in Greenland in 2001 researching widespread depression among the Inuit. In 2002 he was in Afghanistan for the fall of the
Lives of Girls and Women
The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler – that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she`s impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or in the half-understood
The Girls
The Worldwide Bestseller If you`re lost, they`ll find you…Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed. It`s the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them.The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewelry catching the sun. And at their centre, Suzanne black-haired and beautiful.If not for Suzanne, she
The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall`s Most Treacherous Stretch of Coast
The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century. He catches the stories of a whole community, but especially those still working this last frontier:
The Water Kingdom
Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist. China`s history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one ancient element has so dramatically shaped the country`s fate that it remains the key to unlocking China`s story. That element is water.
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister
London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain’s government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking the helm, but in Six Minutes in May Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a different direction.It took just
